# DevOps DevOps is a set of practices, cultural philosophies, and tools that combines software development and IT operations to improve the speed, quality, and reliability of software delivery. DevOps emphasizes automation, collaboration between development and operations teams, continuous integration and delivery, and infrastructure as code. Key DevOps practices include automated testing, continuous deployment pipelines, monitoring and observability, incident management, and version-controlled infrastructure. Tools commonly associated with DevOps include Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions and Jenkins. In API and serverless environments, DevOps practices ensure that API gateway configurations, serverless functions, and backend services are deployed consistently and reliably. Infrastructure as code allows teams to define gateway routing rules, rate limits, and security policies in version-controlled files. Monitoring and alerting provide visibility into API performance, error rates, and usage patterns, enabling rapid response to issues. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.serverlessapigateway.com/glossary/d/devops.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.